Mutual Vulnerability and Risk Reduction in South Asia
Hannah Haegeland
The current state of affairs in Kashmir and resulting heightening of India-Pakistan tensions provide daily examples of escalation risks. Since 1998, the low-probability, high-cost risk of escalation across...
The Rafale Factor and Options for the PAF
Air Cdre Jamal Hussain (Retd)
The setback suffered by the IAF at the hands of its arch-rival the PAF on 27 February 2019, has led to serious introspection by the...
The Militant Landscape, Tactics & Pakistan’s War on Terror
Amira Jadoon
Pakistan may have joined the U.S. war on terror under pressure, but today it is imperative that the country takes complete ownership of its fight against domestic terrorism....
Terrorist Safe Havens in Afghanistan Threaten Pakistan
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Jamatul Ahrar and TTP operating against Pakistan from their bases in Afghanistan.
There has been enough evidence of the transnational composition of militant groups operating in different parts of...
Afghanistan’s Election Could Do More Harm Than Good
Rupert Stone
Afghans went to the polls on September 28 to vote in their country’s fourth presidential election since 2001. The election, which had been delayed twice already, may not...
India’s Strategic Paralysis & Counterforce Temptations
Rabia Akhtar
India’s counterforce capabilities and deterrence equilibrium in South Asia is a subject which continues to agitate minds of strategic thinkers in the region and around the world. One...
Book Review | India’s Surgical Strike Stratagem: Brinkmanship and Response
Author:Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
ISBN: 978-969-23370-0-7
Ahmed Saeed Minhas
The book, ‘India’s Surgical Strike’s Stratagem: Brinkmanship and Response’ has been authored by one of Pakistan’s ace nuclear South Asia scholars, Zafar Nawaz...
Book Review | REIMAGINING PAKISTAN: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Author: Husain Haqqani
ISBN:978-9352777693
Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2018
Saeed Afridi
The premise of Husain Haqqani’s latest book “Re-imagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State” is that Pakistan is an ill-defined, inexactly contrived, economically unviable...
Book Review | The Blind Eye: U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Pakistan From Ford to...
Author : Rabia Akhtar
ISBN:978-969-7813-01-8
Publisher: University of Lahore Press, 2018
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Both as a dominant global power and as a leader of the Western world, United States has been among...
Making Sense of TTP’s Terrorism in Pakistan
Shahzad Akhtar
Pakistan has been faced with the threat of terrorism for more than a decade. While violence has decreased in recent years, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated...